Archives for 2014

NHRA MELLO YELLO COUNTDOWN TO THE CHAMPIONSHIP RETURNS TO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WHERE SERIES CROWNS WILL BE DECIDED

NHRA legends to be featured during special 50th anniversary celebration at historic Auto Club Raceway at Pomona POMONA, Calif. — The 2014 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season has been one of the most exciting seasons in drag racing history and it will come to a fitting end at historic Auto … [Read more...]

AEROMOTIVE INC. NAMED SPONSOR OF SEASON-ENDING NHRA PRO MOD DRAG RACING SERIES LAS VEGAS EVENT

GLENDORA, Calif. (Oct. 22, 2014) – The NHRA today announced Aeromotive Inc., one of the nation’s leaders in automotive aftermarket performance products, as presenting sponsor for the NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series event at the NHRA Toyota Nationals, Oct. 30-Nov. 2 at the Strip at Las Vegas Motor … [Read more...]

10/22/14 Drag Racing News

Drag Racing Online Magazine Goodguys schedules four vintage drag racing events for 2015 Drag Racing Online Magazine The expansion of vintage drag racing highlights the Goodguys Rod & Custom Association's 2015 event schedule. Twenty-one events are on the ... Flag as irrelevant … [Read more...]

Racin and Rockin Radio: Rodger Brogdon on October 27!

Coming up Monday, October 27th at 8 PM Eastern on Racin' and Rockin' with DragList.com, Bill Pratt will host a visit from current NHRA Pro Stock Star Rodger Brogdon! Competing in arguably the most competitive and challenging class in Drag Racing, Rodger is the winner of the most recent NHRA Mello … [Read more...]

AFTER A BATTLE DOWN TO THE WIRE, DWAYNE WOLFE EMERGES AS 2014 NEOPMA CHAMPION

by Vito Micciolo (10-22-2014) Huntington, NY – It’s been a long journey filled season, but one team persevered and emerged a champion after battling the tough competition that race the quarter mile Pro Mod series, and it came down to the final points event of 2014 to determine the Northeast … [Read more...]

2014 IHRA Junior Dragster Champion – John Tolisano III

NORWALK, Ohio (October 21, 2014) - Sometimes, it is just your day. Such was the case for 18-year-old John Tolisano III during the IHRA Summit Racing Equipment World Finals as the young man from Jupiter, Florida overcame a tricky racetrack and ever-increasing odds to win the Summit SuperSeries … [Read more...]

10/21/14 Drag Racing News

Fayetteville Observer 'Blue Max' drag racing champ Raymond Beadle, 70, dies Fayetteville Observer Mr. Beadle, who was 70, was most well-known in drag racing for his line of "Blue Max" nitro-burning Funny Cars. He won 28 NHRA national events ... Raymond Beadle at the 2011 California Hot … [Read more...]

BARTONE BOOKENDS A BAKERSFIELD BLITZKRIEG, FINISHES SEASON UNDEFEATED

October 20, 2014, AA/FD HQ—For Long Island City’s Tony “T-Bone” Bartone,2014 ended as it began: At Famoso Raceway north of Bakersfield, and with a no-quarter, relentless bombardment that annihilated the competition and left no survivors. At Sunday’s California Hot Rod Reunion, Bartone, the 2014 NHRA … [Read more...]

Harris, Snider, DiSomma, Penland and McKinney Win PDRA Finale in Virginia

PETERSBURG, VA (Oct. 15, 2014) – Rising Pro Nitrous star Jason Harris completed an almost perfect campaign Oct. 13, by going to his eighth final round in as many events this year and winning his sixth race to cap off a championship-winning run in the all-eighth-mile Professional Drag Racers … [Read more...]

NHRA FUNNY CAR WORLD CHAMPION RAYMOND BEADLE: 1943-2014

Raymond Beadle, a three-time NHRA Funny Car world champion and driver of the famed Blue Max Funny Car, died Oct. 20 at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas. He was 70. Beadle, who got his start in NHRA in the early 1970s driving for team owners Prentiss Cunningham, Mike Burkhart and Don … [Read more...]